Text and Language Lab

Text and Language Lab

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Text and Language Research Group

The Text and Language Lab at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen–Nürnberg (FAU), led by Prof. Michaela Mahlberg, is an interdisciplinary research group within DHSS.

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Text and Language Research Group

Recent Posts

The Text & Language Lab team took part in the 8th Corpora and Discourse International Conference (CAD 2026), held at Lancaster University, UK, from 23–25 June 2026. CAD 2026 brought together researchers from across the world working at the intersections of corpus linguistics and discourse analysis, with contributions spanning corpus-assisted discourse studies, corpus-based and corpus-driven…

We are delighted to welcome James Tauber as a PhD candidate in the Text and Language Lab, led by Prof. Michaela Mahlberg in the Department of Digital Humanities and Social Studies. James’s doctoral research explores linguistic variation in narrative fiction, combining corpus linguistics, computational narratology, and natural language processing. His work focuses on how language…

The CLiC web app has been officially relaunched at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, marking an important step in advancing digital approaches to literary and linguistic analysis. Originally the CLiC web app has been developed as part of the CLiC Dickens project, designed specifically for the analysis of literary texts.  CLiC Dickens started at the University of Nottingham in 2013, later…

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Prof. Dr. Michaela Mahlberg

Department spokesperson

Dr. Marianna Gracheva

Research Associate (Postdoc)

Dr. Katrin Rohrbacher

Research Associate (Postdoc)

Dr. Ismail Barakat

Media & Research Communications Producer

James Tauber , MA 

Research Assistant (PhD student)

Andreas Wagner, M. Sc.

Research Assistant (PhD student)

Nathan Dykes, M. A.

Research Assistant (PhD student)

Janno Reincke, M. A.

Research Assistant (PhD student)

Kinshuk Dayal Saraswat

Student Assistant

Conferences

We organise and participate in a range of academic conferences, workshops, and talks. Explore our upcoming events and revisit highlights from past conferences.

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Publications

Our research group publishes work across digital humanities, computational linguistics, and related fields. Explore our latest publications and browse our complete publication record.

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